Lucille Clifton

Collects poetry from the author's eleven published collections along with over fifty previously unpublished poems.

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

"A series of poems drawn from various collections published throughout the 40-year career of American poet Lucille Clifton"--

Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton

How to Carry Water

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa. Buffalo, New York. A father's funeral. Memory. In Generations, Lucille Clifton's formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: Caroline, "born among the Dahomey people in 1822," who walked north from New Orleans to Virginia in 1830 when she was eight years old; Lucy, the first black woman to be hanged in Virginia; and Gene, born with a withered arm, the son of a carpetbagger and the author's grandmother. Clifton tells us about the life of an African American family through slavery and hard times and beyond, the death of her father and grandmother, but also all the life and love and triumph that came before and remains even now. Generations is a powerful work of determination and affirmation. "I look at my husband," Clifton writes, "and my children and I feel the Dahomey women gathering in my bones."

A Memoir

Generations

A collection of poems focusing on the life of the author

Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980

Good Woman

A collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet features works that locate the eternal sublime amid mundane experience

The Book of Light

Self-revealing poems discuss such topics as cancer, mastectomy, and the poet's animal self--the fox

Poems

The Terrible Stories

Nineteen new poems as well as selections from the author's earlier collections explore human suffering, the tragedy of violence, and theological mysteries.

New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000

Blessing the Boats

Two-Headed Woman

A collection of poems by the African American poet focus on the stratification of American society, the power of Western materialism, and her concern for the world's children.

Mercy

A collection of poems by the author divided into sections: Log Cabin; Catalpa Flower; Eight-pointed Star; Tree of Life; Prayer.

Poems, 1987-1990

Quilting

Good Times

Autobiographical poems depict the poet's feelings about her family, her life, her poetry, and her identity

Two-headed Woman

Overview: Winner of the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 is the culminating achievement of Lucille's Clifton longstanding poetry career. This long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets writing today includes poems written during the past four years as well as generous selections from Lucille Clifton's award-winning collections Next: New Poems, Quilting and The Terrible Stories. Clifton employs brilliantly honed language, stunning images and sharp rhythms to address the whole of human experience. Hers is a poetry that is passionate and wise, not afraid to confront our most salient issues.

bell hooks

Maya Angelou

Harryette Mullen

Wanda Coleman

Pat Parker

Sonia Sanchez

Alice Walker

Audre Lorde

Gwendolyn Brooks

Cheryl Clarke

Nikki Giovanni

June Jordan

Rita Dove

Nikky Finney

Angelina Weld Grimké

Amina Baraka

Jayne Cortez

Gwendolyn Bennett

Esta antologia oferece um panorama inédito da poesia negra feita por mulheres nos Estados Unidos no século XX, reunindo dezenove poetas com uma amostra significativa de suas produções e linguagens. Ao lado de nomes já reverenciados no Brasil, como Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, bell hooks e Alice Walker, estão poetas ainda pouco conhecidas que constituem o canône da literatura negra mundial. Caso das pioneiras Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn Bennett e Gwendolyn Brooks, e representantes da poesia falada e engajada, como Jayne Cortez e Amina Baraka, que despontaram nos anos 1960 e 1970. Período de grande efervescência da cultura negra nos Estados Unidos, as décadas do Black Arts Movement e do Black Power coincidem, não por acaso, com as primeiras publicações das sólidas carreiras de grande parte dessas poetas, como Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, Pat Parker e June Jordan, seguidas por autoras como Cheryl Clarke, Nikky Finney, Wanda Coleman e ainda as premiadíssimas Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove e Sonia Sanchez. Organizado por Lubi Prates, "Você lembrará seus nomes" conta com um time de tradutoras negras brasileiras renomadas, sendo a maior parte delas também poetas, além de pequenas biografias das autoras reunidas, contextualizando suas vidas e obras.

Antologia de poetas negras dos Estados Unidos do século XX

Você lembrará seus nomes

Nine poems describe a small boy's preparations for Christmas.

Everett Anderson's Christmas Coming

Ross Gay

Sidney Clifton

Anniversary Edition

Book of Light

Two skeptical city boys set out to find spring which they've heard is "just around the corner."

The Boy Who Didn't Believe in Spring

Good Time

A new collection of empathetic and illuminating poems by one of America's most-beloved poets.

Lucille Clifton

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